emmaishappy said:
I open carried to my neighborhood BBQ. It was my first time. My husband (MountainManXD) and his friend also OC'd and had several stares and some funny comments that I will let him post.
em
Well I noticed Dave had posted that it is the OC weekend, so I decided that was a good excuse to OC to our little BBQ get together. Earlier that day I had shaved off my 5 month beard so when I showed up everyone was either surprised by my cleaned up appearance, or my OCed XD40. So as you can see from the pic, I no longer look like a mountain man :lol3: . Anyway I called one of my friends that has been with me when I OCed before, and told him he had to OC because it is OC weekend. His kids were out somewhere, so I ended up inviting him over for some food. After he showed up OCing his .40Glock, we started getting lots of questions from some of the neighbors. One of my neighbor’s moms was visiting from Australia, and she was really interested in what we were doing, due to the fact that guns are almost completely outlawed there. As my neighbor said, "you can't even think about the guns you might have owned in the past." Well we told them about the laws regarding OC and CC, the reasons why we carry, and about the Open Carry movement nationally and here locally (WVC). We were having so much fun, that em decided she could OC her gun too. One experience that is worth mentioning is that there was a seedy looking guy driving by who did a triple take when he noticed my gun. He waited until he was turning onto the next street, before yelling, "Nice gun, loser." It was hard not to laugh. :ROFL: Later I wandered over to Liberty Park to see if I could get a view of some fireworks, when a guy walked by. This time as he did the triple take he started walking into the street. When he saw me smiling, he realized I wasn't threatening, and said, "Now that's a firecracker." The look on his face was priceless. Later as we were finishing up the fireworks another friend, who was riding her bike, stopped by. She stopped to watch the kids doing fireworks. As she was leaving, I asked her what she thought of the gun. :jawdrop: She couldn't believe it. She hadn’t noticed it for the 20 minutes that she had been there. But after talking to her about it she thought it was pretty cool. She asked if you had to be trained to have a gun. I told her that you didn't need to be to OC, but that is was a good idea. I also told her that to get a cfp you need to take a class, and have a background check. I also used the spare tire analogy saying it wouldn't do you much good if you didn't know how to use it. Anyway, I got one of my friends to OC, my wife OCed a little, I talked to some of my neighbors about it, got some good looks :jawdrop: , some funny words :huh: , and educated someone with no knowledge of firearms. And as em said the apple pie was amazing. Family, friends, food, firearms, and fireworks; the fourth couldn't have been any better.
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